Apple code name for the latest PowerBooks (the ones with FireWire). Named after Pismo Beach, CA, which is known for Pismo clams. The FireWire PowerBook was originally supposed to c…

Interesting.

Hi all I'm new to PB's so please forgive me if this is obvious. OK here's the story: I have an old PB 1400c which has system 8 installed. Unfortunately, the system is corrupted…

Hold apple (command) C while booting up from your original OS8 cd. That will do the trick.

Thanks for the info mate! I wish I could say it worked, but it didn't. I wonder if my CD drive is bung. any other offers anyone? BTW Is there any way I can just erase the HD…

You can wipe the HDD and start over again, but to do that you need another system disk to boot from. For you this means a CD I'm afraid. Have you tried holding down the option ke…

You can use an external scsi drive to boot from or you can use a scsi buddy (with a docking switch) to dock your PB with another mac to reformat & install a new system folder. …

Hi there Thanks for the suggestions guys, I'll keep playing and see how I go. At least I have a couple of options open via the SCSI port! Cheers

I heard somewhere that there would be Rage Pro support in OS X 10.2. This would mean that Open GL would be enabled in older imacs and powerbooks as Apple originally promised with O…

Hi guys and girls... as you all can see, I'm new. My first question tho isn't a very simple one, so let's start. As student, everybody will agree, you naturally don't have a lot …

I think upgrading a 1400c at this point has diminishing returns. The 1400c was a venerable notebook when it was new, but it's pretty useless for even today's office applications. F…

List it on e-bay and put the proceeds towards either an iBook or a Titanium. rh

Well, I'm not making any plans on listing my new Laptop on ebay again, I just bought it there. Let's set this clear: I don't have the money to buy an iBook, even not a used one. […

Word 5 and ClarisWorks 4 are stellar for older machines. Also look into the iCab browser, and Eudora lite 3 as an email client. They all run nicely in low resource environments.

That's a good tip, I'll try to find those. As said, It's just a better typewriter for me at first, maybe something more when it really suites me. But I'm not going to spend $800 fo…

I actually ran 9.0.4 without complaint on my old 1400. I primarily ran Office 98 and PageMaker 6.5+. PageMaker didn't run that well until I got a Newer 250 upgrade and 64mb of ra…

I've got the rev a titanium, 500. I'm running with the original 256meg configuration. But I live in os X. I never go back. From what I remember of my OS 9 days, the computer wa…

Of course more RAM helps! Doesn't matter what computer you have - if you are running Mac OS X, you need to get all the RAM you can. I suggest having AT LEAST 384 MB of RAM to run …

Thanks Cheesepuff. What are you running? How much ram do you have, and what kind of improvements can I expect?

I had a PowerBook G3 400 MHz with 192 MB of RAM, and running Mac OS X 10.1 was useless because it was too slow. I upped the RAM to 768 and it had a HUGE improvement from booting up…

Thanks again. Just curious: why do you have two laptops?

Quote: Who has found that 512 makes a real difference compared to 256? When I upgraded from 256 MB to 512 MB in my PowerBook G3 (Pismo), I noticed a significa…

You bet it makes a huge difference. I have a Pismo 400 and upgrading to os X I did 2 things upgraded to 5100 rpm HD (the 48gig) and loaded to 768 RAM. Best investment I could h…

I think it is VERY difficult to get pageouts in OS X if you have more than 384mb of RAM. I recently boosted my Powerbook Ti 550 from 256 to 384. OS X was slightly more responsive, …

Quote: Originally posted by CheesePuff: <STRONG> I suggest having AT LEAST 384 MB of RAM to run Mac OS X, so slap another 256 or 512 chip in your PowerBook to brin…